Good job it’s a 2 week gap until Hungary, or would be tempted to think he would be a no-show. That much energy being dumped into his lower-spine could well cause some lingering problems. They seem to have given him the thumbs up a little early to my mind, but fingers crossed for him.

Never ceases to amaze me how safe F1 cars are these days. We really do have Max Mosley to thank for a lot of this, much as it pains me to acknowledge it.

Luckiest driver for my money still has to be Christian Fittipaldi after his mid-air 360 at Monza in 93. Remember watching in disbelief that he came back down the right way up and marveling that if he’d caught his team mate’s rear 100 metres earlier, he would have been wrapped round the overhead gantry across the start/finish line.

Up until that point, the race had been going straight forward. Timo Glock’s crash forced the teams into alterations, and in McLaren’s case, mistakes, involving their pitstops. For me, the most important incident of the race and the most interesting. Watching the teams adapt to what had happened.
As has been documented, Glock’s crash occured on the exit to the final corner. Yesterday, that could have been Kovalainen going off into the wall. A very, very tricky section right there.
Hats off yet again, to all of the safety people who have yet again saved another young driver’s life today.